From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 17:26: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533C837B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:26:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccmmhc02.mchsi.com (sccmmhc02.mchsi.com [204.127.203.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB85743E3B for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:26:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhumm2@mchsi.com) Received: from mchsi.com ([12.218.70.104]) by sccmmhc02.mchsi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020724002603.EKUA25309.sccmmhc02.mchsi.com@mchsi.com>; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:26:03 +0000 Message-ID: <3D3DF46A.F5E9660D@mchsi.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:27:22 -0500 From: Mark Hummel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org, Jeremy Faulkner Subject: Re: How Does CHECKSUM.MD5 Work? References: <3D3DE84B.38C323AD@mchsi.com> <20020723195918.A75394@constans.gldis.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeremy, Thanks for the quick response. I downloaded the *.ISO files. Then I burned the first CD from the image file. The root directory of the CD has no CHECKSUM.MD5 file, but there are many of these files within several of the directories none of which even come close to matching the CHECKSUM.MD5 file on the ftp site which I printed to compare. What exactly am I missing? Mark Jeremy Faulkner wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:35:39PM -0500, Mark Hummel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've just downloaded the ISO images for 4.6r and intend to burn the > > complete 4 CD set this evening. I understand what a checksum is from my > > old BBS days so I assume I somehow use CHECKSUM.MD5 to verify the > > downloads. If this is correct, how do I do this? > > > > Please respond to my email address in addition to the mailing list. > > Thank you > > > > Mark > > You read the CHECKSUM.MD5 file (it's plain text) and compare the md5 checksum > stored there in with the md5 checksum of the file's you downloaded. > > -- > Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message